Argumentative Essay On Curfew

There’s a problem that the city believes that they have the right to give people’s children a curfew outside of the curfew the parent has created. This argument is just beginning to gain traction as teenagers want to stay out later to spend time with their friends “Netflixing and Chilling”. According to Jonathan Zimmerman’s article youth curfews date back to the late 19th century because America had an enormous amount of unsupervised teens. Similar to truancy laws and child labor laws the curfew law was created because it was said that it would improve family life. The city shouldn’t have control over curfews on teenagers because it hinders teenage growth in everyday life. Everyone is all about teenagers becoming responsible young adults, but
Municipal curfews are government interference with private life. If the parent chooses to issue a curfew for their child then that should be their decision. The government shouldn’t interfere with their decisions. Reverting back to what I previously said curfews do not give the parents a chance to teach their children responsibility. Parents may trust their child and know that they’re responsible enough to get home, curfews are enforced because the government thinks that it may drop the crime rate. In fact as reported by Jonathan Zimmerman Detroit adopted a curfew 1976 the crime rate dropped 6 percent during curfew hours, but increased 13 percent during the day. Across the nation more than 80 percent of youth crimes happen between the hours of 9am and 10pm, because of the change in when crimes occur the government believes that the curfews have made a change in the community when, they’ve only changed the community for the worst. In Mike Males’ article “OP-ED: Why Don’t Youth Curfews Work?” he stated “CJCJ’s journal analysis of 400 police citations found just that: Curfews function as remarkably effective tools to waste law enforcement resources” which in turn proves that state curfews aren’t as serious as they’re made out to be (Males